JustFaith

Anyone still interested in Just Faith can join us in the Siena room at St Toms on Monday nights at 7.00 pm. Please contact Smita (337-8199, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Debby (491--0496, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Just Faith is a 30 week, book and small group discussion program offered at St. Tom's that provides an opportunity for participants to embark on a deep spiritual journey into the compassion of Christ.

Just Faith is about formation and transformation. Formation is a word Catholics use to talk about how our souls and hearts and minds are shaped by our faith; our lives are shaped by the Scriptures and the life of Jesus. Just Faith can facilitate personal transformation if we allow ourselves to open up sprititually to the experience, if we permit ourselves to enter into meaningful relationships with others in the group, and if we allow our hearts to be broken by the poor and suffering people we will encounter in our readings, through the videos, and in our personal encounters at border crossings. JustFaith can be life changing, but it starts with our willingness to be changed, to be formed, to be transformed.

What Is JustFaith Ministries?

JustFaith Ministries provides programs that transform people and expand their commitment to social ministry. Through these life-changing opportunities, members of a church or parish can study, explore and experience Christ’s call to care for the poor and vulnerable in a lively, challenging, multifaceted process in the context of a small faith community.

Jack Jezreel, M.Div., the founder and Executive Director of JustFaith Ministries, introduced the original JustFaith program in 1989 while working in a parish in Louisville, Kentucky. It was immediately and dramatically successful. Since then, churches around the country have had similar results.

Over 18,000 people have participated in various JustFaith programs in over 1,000 churches across the country. JustFaith Ministries, in conjunction with its partners, makes available introductory workshops, curriculum, resources, a website, and support services.

Programs

JustFaith Ministries offers extended programs that provide opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching. JustFaith Ministries programs help individuals experience conversion, integrating their personal spirituality with social commitment. Participants are empowered to develop a passion and thirst for justice and to express this passion in concrete acts of social ministry in their parish or church and in the community at large.

These programs are tools that have proven time and again to be effective strategies for training and forming individuals as agents of social transformation. They are exciting opportunities for parishes, churches, dioceses, agencies and small faith communities interested in expanding and promoting social ministry.

As someone who has completed the program I can it is a good way to explore ways in which the Church's social teaching can be lived out. One thing in particular which is a very good part of the program is you do actually read the magisterial documents concerning the Church's social teaching. It dose show in part what grounds the program's approach as being rooted in Magisterial teaching.

Again, www.justfaith.org , for more info.